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I -TJ-ANDA-LPF (,*ATHEi)RAL SEICVICRS. THR THIRTEKNTH BUTRDAY AVTKB THIWITY.—In feSI. oence, the Very ltev. the Dean and tho Rev. Canon Roberts. Holy Communion, mid-day. Morulng t Chants: hymns. 176 and 213; preacher, Canon Roberts. Afternoon Litany; bymns, 237,281, and 274; preacher, flin Oltan- Monday, September t.-Hymn, 299. Tuesday, September 2.—Hymn, 282. Wednesday. September 3.-Hymn, 301. Thursday, September 4.-Hymn, ?91. Friday, September 6.—Hymn, 865. tiaturday, 8elptember 6.-Hymn. 263, O. J. VAUGHAIT Dean.

1- THE WEATHER. Heavy rain fell at intervals yesterday. The forecast for to-day (Saturday) is as followsWind shifting northwards; rainy to fair. Appended to a ohart of the barometrical residisige for the 48 botirs ended Friday midnight, u registered at the it estiirn Mau OBIee, Cardiff. The instrument b 33M above una el.

f YESTKRUAFS RAINFALk 11'lU Mit?U. as rel:l.t Tradeterah, }tOIUPII'Y.1 I!,ill. near CM.tia. for th" 12 boan Inded 9.0 p.m. !Mot night, and for each 12 hours of UIO pMt week, w& as followb:- 9 p.m. 9 a.m. Total. Friday 22 -14 '00 -14 SlIturday 23 "00 "42 '42 bun,1.y 24 -03 '04 '04 MontiLLy 26 "23 "09 '32 1,uos,ia3 26 -13 "07 '20 Wednesday, 27 '11 '01 '12 ThufSlIIiY. 28 '02 '01 '03 Friday 29 "00 Total for the week I i"to 11 ?lc?, tl11 24, ?,o"awn oh ?exp're at 9.0 ai?mii I? ncti morMt)? I.I."K ? the ? ,,ig 1 day, the n?nMt n each caso is asoribed to that dav's date. ABGRYSTIHTB WKATHEK REPORT. Friday Even- ng.-Barenaettr. 30 062; falling thermometer, 67 lu tlie sh,tde; wind, N.W. Amount of sunshino registered by I Joi-damg, recorded for the 24 hours preceding ni no a.m., nine hours; very tine day bright sunshine blue sky fresh breeze sea nearly calm.

I NIGH WATER TillS BAY. 1 Mer. Era, Mar. Eva Nor. Eva. Swansea 5.5S 6.211 Cardiff 6.59 7.24 I Newport 6.19 7.16

Our Special Commissioner has interviewed the Dean of Bangor and Mr. I horaas Gee, of Denbigh, upon the present aspect of the tithe agitation, full particulars of which we pub- lish in our present issue. An official oommunioation has been reoeived at Cardiff from Captain Holford, the equerry of the Duke of Clarence, stating that his Royal Highness will have great pleasure in visiting that town on Wednesday, the 17th of September next. Lord Mostyn has presented to the town of Llandudno, and personally inaugurated, a little park known as the Happy Valley, situated on the slopes of Great < rme'a Head. Yesterday the Cardiff magistrates fined a woman £10 and costs for illicitly selling beer. Yesterday at Newport Police-court a youth, sixteen years of age, was oonvicted of stealing a box containing money from the house of his employer. The accused, who bad previously undergone eight months' imprisonment on various terms, was sent to gaol for six months. Yesterday was held at OarditI the sixty-ninth general half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Penarth Harbour, Dock, and Railway, and a dividend at the ratei of 95 6s. per cent. per annum was declared. At a meeting of the shareholders in the Pembroke and Tenby Railway Company in London yesterday a dividend of 21 per oent. was declared. An extensive conflagration occurred soon after daybreak yesterday morning at the Old Sun Wharf, Rotherbithe. A space forty yards long and twenty broad blazed like a furnace, and several thousands of tons of coal stored on the wharf became ignited, and a large four-floored building was destroyed. The Queen of Uoumania arrived at Queen- borough yesterday on her way to Llandudno. The bodies of two fishermen drowned by the disaster off Conway last week were recovered yesterday. All the sufferers by the railway accident near Glasgow are favourably progressing except Mr. Maolaren, who was yesterday reported as being seriously ill. More persona were injured than was at first supposed. The dead body of an elderly woman, named Groves, was found in her bouse at Maid- stone yesterday. Cries of murder were heard during the previous night, and foul play is suspeotea. A patient in the oentral hospital in Vienna is supposed to be suffering from cholera. England has definitely taken possession of the Shire Highlands. The gas department of the Birmingham Corporation have under consideration "a penny-in-the-slot for the supply of gas in small tenements. The idea has been tested, and proved to be feasible. The system would involve the fixing of a machine in the house of each consumer and the doling out of gas by pennyworths. The price now charged to small oonaamera is 3d. per 100ft. Under the new principle the proposal is to supply 25ft. for Id. I he wife of a publican in the Forest of Dean is lying in a oritical condition, her life being despaired of, from the effeota of an extraordinary assault by her husband, who, having been confined to his bed for several days with rheumatism, suddenly got up, went downstairs, and attacked his wife with a stick. The woman's depositions have been taken and a warrant has been issued for the arrest of the husband, but he is too ill to be removed from his house. At the Thames Police-court yesterday Geo. Hamilton, John Hall, and Morris Van Thai, overseers for Whiteohapel, were summoned for conspiring to deprive Mr. Stanley Mookett of his privilege to have his name inserted in the list of voters for the Whiteohapel Division of the Tower Hamlets, and with oombiniog to insert in the list names of certain persons who had no qualification to vote. After some evidence had been taken the further hearing was adjourned an til tbe 19th proximo. ,}'t;¡ In our present issue we give particulars, with a sketch, of the elevatioii of the new County Olub premises shortly to be erected at Oarditt. Welsh Military and Volunteer Notes by a speoial correspondent will bo found in another I column.

IRISH AND WELSH POLITICS. If it were not a well-known faot that oertain leaders of the Parnellite party had in times past expressed their devout gratitude for the affliotions of the Irish people, we oonfrss that we should acoept with muoh tardiness the suggestion which our Londou correspondent makes to-day, to the effeot that the prospect of a potato famine in Ireland is a godsend to the Separatists. But Mr. MICHABL DAVITT long ago oonneoted the agrarian agitation with the distress in the West of Ireland, and expressed his thank- fulness for the one because it gave existence and permanence to the other. The profes- sional agitator has, of course, but one object in view, and, in ordor to bring his plans to pass, what matters it that the people suffer P To bring discredit on the name of a nation, to involve the oountry in commercial ruin is a mere bagatelle as compared with the success of apolitical conspiracy. What matters it if the people die of hunger; does not the glo- rious oause of Separation flourish thereby P The events of the last few weeks have proved beyond a doubt that religious and moral con- victions are not to be allowed to stand in the way of the success of the Parnellite pro- framme. Notwithstanding the fact that Boycotting and the Plan of Campaign have been condemned in the most explioit terms by the bead of the Roman Catholic Church, Mr. JOHN DILLON continues to support these illegalities. The action of this Irish leader in going to Limeriok, and there declaring before the very doors of Bishop O'DWYEH that, inasmuch as Boycotting and the Plan of Campaign are political expedients, they lie outside the province of the Holy See, clearly shows that nothing shall be con- sidered sacred if it stands in the way of bring- ing Irish Home Rule to pass. If a Catholio can insult the VICAR of CHRIST, what oan he not do P The Holy Father deolared that Boycotting and the Plan of Campaign were immoral; Mr. JOHN DILLON says that they are political expedients, and are, therefore, right. Are the Ten Commandments to go the way of the eighth P If it be necessary once again for the Parnellites to maroh to the disintegration of the Kmpire through rapine and blood, will murder also become justifiable P Coming to the deplorable statement, that the Separatists view with joy the prospect of an Irish potato famine, we can only express a hope that such inhuman anticipations will remain unfulfilled. The potato orop in Ireland has, undoubtedly, suffered during the present season, but to what extent it is at present impossible to tell. One thing is per- fectly clear. Whatever enormities the present Government has been guilty of, whatever Mr. BALFOUR is responsible for, no one but a most unsorupulous partisan will imagine for a moment that the success or failure of the Irish potato crop is even remotely connected with English rule in Ireland. The London Echo, though an uncompromising Separatist, had the frankness to point out a few days ago that the Irish far- mers themselves are chiefly responsible for their misfortunes. The generosity of Nature has been abused by the Irish people in every possible way. Because potatoes grow so easily the peasants oultivate hardly anything else. They plant the same ground year after year, tilling it in the most slovenly, perfunotory manner, and hardly even pre tending to supply the manurial restoratives required by the exhausted soil. Worse almost than this is their shiftless method of seeding. When the crop is gathered the ? largeat and finest-looking potatoes are taken for the family's eating, and only the smallest and weediest reserved for seed. Some of the more intelligent Irish farmers have broken this pernicious aystem of potato oulture. They select healthy potatoes for seed, cut them in sets so as not to have more than two eyes in a set, till their ground carefully, and get good, healthy crops. Yet, despite this improvement, it is a fact that when Mr. BALFOUR, anticipating the fatal effects of the bad system, devised a scheme for the supply of sound seed, the peasants would have nothing to do with it. It seems to be regarded as more patriotio to oultivate a famine, and then whine to the British public for alms, than t t' accept the means placed within their reach of obviating famine. Although the Government is in no way responsible for the oondition of the potato crop, it is undeniable that the excellent administration of Mr. BALFOUB has resulted in plaoing the Irish people in such a position as will enable them to bear their afflictions with greater fortitude. Ireland is at an un- exampled height of prosperity. According to recent official returns, the bank deposits have increased by nearly two millions in the year. Railway traffics and other incomings have increased in proportion, and this develop- ment of material prosperity will, doubt- less, give the people backbone to resist calamity. Turning from the methods of politioal warfare as pursued in Ireland to consider those which have received the sanc- tion of the leaders of the Welsh people, it is impossible not to be struck with the fidelity wit,h which the anti-tithe agitators in the Principality have copied the Irieh model. In both countries the plain dictates of morality are unblushinglv discarded—honesty and justice are mocked by both parties. The traditions of Roman Catholioism in Ireland and the traditions of Nonconformity in Wales are but as chuff driven before the whirlwind of political agitations. In both countries alike the distress of the agriculturists is warmly welcomed as a useful and a powerful ally in resisting the principles of law and order.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO CARDIFF. LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF CLAKENOE TO THE MAYOR. THE INVITATION ACCEP1ED, Ia the absence of the Mayor (Mr. Alderman Sanders, J.P.J. the ex-Mayor of Cardiff (Mr. Alder- man David Jbnttt, J.P ), has received a communi- cation from Captain Halford, the Equerry of the Duke of Clarence, stating that hie Royal Highness will have great pleasure In visiting Cardiff on Wed. nesday, September 17 next, and desires to convey to the mayor and corporation of Cardiff his accep- tance of their kind invitation; and. further, that the Prince is much gratified on hearing that they propose to confer upon him the honorary freedom of the borough, and will be very pleased to per- form the ceremony of opening the new roads and bridges at Granget«wn.

ARRIVAL OF THE QUEEN OF ROIVMANIA. EN ROUTB FOR LLANDUDNO. The Queen of Roumanfet and suite arrived in London on Friday morntog from the Continent, from whence they will proceed to Llandudno.

SUDDEN DEATH OF CAPTAIN STEPHENSON, OF SAUNDERSFOOT, On Thursday evening Captain Stephenson, of Saundersfoot, was discovered on one of the eeats on the South Parade at Tenby in a semi-conscious state. Medical assistance was at once procured, and Captain Stepbenaon was ccmyeyed into the Assembly-room, but be died almost immediately. The deceased gentleman walked in from Saunders- foot to attend the annual meeting of the South American Missionary Society at t%is Public-hall, and on his way there, after calling upon hit friend Dr. Gwynne, who be found bad preceded him to the meeting, be was aeixed with the illness that terminated fatally. Captain SWhwwo at one time took an active part in developing fobe mineral rountm of the neighbourhood of SMwdersfoot, and waa well known in the district. The body was conveyed to the mortuary at tbv Cottage Hospital, and afterwards to the reedeop of the deceased at The Kyrie, Saunderafoot, r:* —————————————

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WELSH MILITARY AND VOLUNTEER NOTES. LBY IIIFLXMAN. I Captain White, who has commanded a eom- pany in the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Welsh Regiment, at Cardiff, for the last seven years, has left the service. He was a very good officer, and was in possession of a 11.8 certifi- cate. Now that he has left the service there is only one If P.S." olfioer in the whole of the Cardiff battalion. Captain Donn, who has just given up the adjutancy of the let Battalion Royal Welsh t'usiliers, in India, will next week join at Wrexham and take over the duties of adju- tant of the 1st Volunteer Battalion Welsh Fusiliers (late 1st Denbigh Rifle Voluntseral, in place of Captain Fenwiok, whose period of service expires. On Thursday next there will be a change in the adjutancy of the 3rd Battalion South Wales Borderers. Captain A. M. Sugden, of the dep6t at Breoon, will on that day re-place Captain Trower as adjutant of the old Royal South Wales Borderer Militia Corps. The newly-formed 1st Monmouth Artillery Volunteers is making very rapid progress, I am informed, showing that the authorities aoted wisely in separating the Monmouthshire batteries from those raised in the county of Worcester. There appears to be no lack of officers and men ready to take service iu the corps, and the increased establishment is very nearly completed. It has been suggested that the Cheshire and Carnarvon Artillery Volunteer Brigade should also be divided, and a Volunteer gunner whom I know, and who belongs to the corps, assures me that there would be very little difficulty in getting enough men to form an Artillery brigade in North Wales totally distinct from the county of Chester. Under existing ciroumstanoes it seems that, although the corps enjoys the designation of the Cheshire and Carnarvon A.V., it is recruited from the whole of North Wales, as well as Cheshire. I doubt, however, if the authori- ties would consent to the separation of the Welsh from the Cheshire batteries unless aa assurance were given that both in North Wales and in Cheshire additional batteries could be raised. At present the corps consists of only nine batteries, and if divided into a couple of independent brigades wo should have two small corps created, one of five and the other of only four batteries. My own opinion is, however, that North Wales ought to be able to raise a respectable force of Volunteer Artillerymen. The Northern portion of the Principality is far behind the Southern portion in the number of Volunteers, making due allowance for the disparity in the population of South and North Wales. In addition to a few Volunteer Artillerymen, we have in the North of Wales only a oouple of battalions of Volunteer Infantry, one of eight and the other of twelve companies. Roughly speaking, there are altogether less than a couple of thousand Volunteers in the whole of North Wales, I believe that there would be no difficulty in increasing that number by the formation of a brigade of Volunteer Artillery recruited from the counties of Carnarvon. Merioneth, Denbigh, Flint, and the Isle of Anglesea. It is rumoured that the designation of the 3rd Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers at Swansea will shortly be changed to that of the 4th V.B. Welsh Kegiment. Inquiries made fail to find confirmation of this rumour, but I should say that the change in the designation of the corps would be a most desirable one. People who do not know muoh about these matters are apt to get confused when we have the 3rd Glamorgan) V.B. Welsh Regiment and the 3rd Glamorgan Rifle Volunteers. Lieutenant W. J. Lewis, the senior lieutenant of the 3rd Glamorgan, who joined the Swansea corps over seven years ago, has left the service. The battalion has also lost its quartermaster, Mr. Edmond, who was only appointed last year in succession to Quartermaster Dillwyn, who had held the post for sixteen years. Mr. Edmond has, however, not left the corps, for he has accepted a lieutenant's commission in the battalion. I hear that a suooessor to him as quartermaster will shortly be appointed. The 33rd Company Royal Engineers, which has been undergoing-a course of instruction in submarine mining at Pembroke Dock, has left that station and returned to its old quarters at Cork. Major Kdmondes, R.E., at Pembroke Dock, will, on transfer to Chatham, take over the command of the training battalion of Royal Engineers, a post for which he is eminently fitted. Captain White, of the 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment, has passed the qualifying examina- tion, and has been recommended for admis- sion into the Staff College. At present there are now serving in the Welsh Regiment three officers who have graduated at the Staff College,viz., Major Banfield,who is on the staff of the general officer commanding the Western District; Captain Caunter, also on the staff, and Captain Goldsobmidt, who only recently passed t through the oollege. Captain Marston, R.A., will in a few weeks give up the adjutanoy of the Pembroke Artillery Militia, on termination of the period of service. No officer has yet been nominated to succeed him in the adjutanoy, and, as a matter of faot, there are at the present time one or two adjutants of Militia Artillery brigades who are serving beyond the regulation five years because no ouicers are available to take their places. AH trained recruits at the depot of the Welsh Regiment at Cardiff and at the depot of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Wrexham are being sent to Ireland to join the service companies of the 2nd Battalion Welsh Regi- ment, at Cork, and the 2nd Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, at Dublin. It has now been deoided that the move of the 2nd Battalion Welsh liegiment from Ireland to the Western Distriot shall not take place until next year. The battalion will remain at Cork until the end of January. It has been suggested that all Volunteer captains, before promotion to field rank, should be required to be in possession of a field officer's certificate, and should also pass the examination for tactics as laid down for regular captains before promotion to the rank of major. It is not too muoh to expeot that a Volunteer captain who aspires to be a field officer should be able to show that he is fitted for too very responsible position oocu- pied by field oiffoers. it might also be added that it should be made compulsory for an officer of that rank to be able to ride well, because it is a well known faot that many Volunteer field officers are very indifferent horsemen, while some of these gentlemen cannot ride at all, and, therefore, never appear mounted on parade. These are three important matters, it is essential tnat a Volunteer major should be well up to his work, and the three requirements indicated are oertainly not out of tho way. It is not ask- ing too muoh of a superior officer of a Volun- teer battalion to expect that he shall be well up in drill, also that he shall have a knowledge of tMtioa, and, further, that he shall be able to out a creditable figure when mounted. If, when a vacancy occurs for a field officer, the senior captain is unable to comply with theee requirements, he should, in the interests of the service, be passed over in favour of a cap- tain who can and will give guarantees that be is able to efficiently disoharge the duties devolving upon an officer of field rank.

CARDIFF POST-OFFICE NOTICE. A new day mail has been established from Cardiff to Bristol toinclude letters posted at the Hisad Post-office, St. Mary-street, before 1.30 p.m., and they will be delivered in Bristol the same afternoon.

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I MliiUOPOUTAN NOTES. I r [FROX oca LONDON CORRUPONDRST-I A GODSBND TO THE PARNICLUTUB. It is a shooking thing to say, but still more shocking that it is a true saying, that the threatened Irish famine is a godsend to the Parnellites. It will be a minor famine com- pared with the terrible days of 1.847, but the Parnellites, aided by Punch, which adopts their stale cartoons, are going to boom it as a big reason for separation; they are going to boom it as a reason for not paying rent; they are going to do all they can to hinder relief, and thus they are going to boom a cry that Brutal, Base, &c., Balfour is starving the people. It will be Mr. Balfour's duty to work steadily and unflinchingly through the cloud of calumny, perfecting and carrying oat the measures which are necessary to help the destitute. It does not follow that everyone whose crops are blighted will be destitute. Many of the most wretched-looking peasants in Ireland have a secret stocking or money in the bank. They have learnt too well the lesson of dishonesty taught them by the Parnellites and priests. From the priests I, of oourse, except such exceptions of honesty as Bishop CKDwyer and some other olergy who are Christians as well as Catholics. A WABNINQ TO MR. BALFOBR. Whatever measures of relief Ministers adopt, it is fervently hoped they will not entrust any funds to the Poor-law guardians. Experience has shown that the administration of special relief by Parnellite guardians ia degraded into a system of rotten corruption. When Mr. Morley's Act, in 1886, authorised the expen- diture of £ 20,000 in certain distriots, the guardians spent £ 36,999. They gave relief indiscriminately to everyone who applied. In the Clifden Union, out of a population of 24,000, no fewer than 18,553 were relieved. But when it was found that farther relief would have to come out of the pookets of the ratepayers the number at once dropped to 3,653. Similarly, in the Galway Union, the numbers dropped from 6,775 to 79, and in the Belmuliet Union from 7,642 to none. In those three unions very nearly 30,000 persons had been relieved who, on the guardians' own showing, had no right to relief. Perhaps, the worat case was in the l'oriough electoral division, where Mr. Patrick Walsh offered a return of persons relieved which exceeded the grosa population of the district. This was better than the Slieve- more division, where 1,824 out of 1,947 per- sons were relieved. WELL-TO-DO PAOPBBS. The wholesale distribution of relief under Mr. Morle/s Act in 1886 was remarkable for the absence of shame on the part of the dis- honest participants in the fraud. On the contrary, the rogues were rather vain of their auooess. Two men who were considerable sheep-owners complacently re- marked that they were "proud to get relief.' Among other persons relieved were a man with four cows, a man with thirteen bead of oattle, a publican, a farmer who the day before had sold thirteen cattle at a fair, a pensioner in receipt of 260 a year, a man owning ten head of oattle and a horse and cart with him- self and son in regular work, a tenant farming 1,076 acres of land and who hadjust previously paid £6 in taxes, a oattle jobber with money in the bank, a money-lender, and a contractor who was actually working for the union when he applied for and obtained relief. The relief works were a sham. Payment was given in tiokets for meal, but the recipients experienced no difficulty in getting tea, sugar, or whisky instead. A man in Westport Union, who sold a gentleman eight bullocks for 20, apologised for coming late on the ground that he had been on the relief work till two o'clock, and then had to go to his 9, upper farm to "pick out the bullocks from his herd of cattle. Some people sent their servants to the works to seoure relief tickets. Some went to the works in the morning, had their names put down, and re- turned home. Others, more conscientious, sat on the roadside smoking their pipes during the allotted time of labour, and thus put in a full day." I think we may trust Mr. Balfour not to miss the lesson taught by these revela- tions. CARDIFF AND THE QUESTION OF PAPAL SUPREMACY. I Cardiff, having settled in its own way the question of Papal supremacy in this realm, has become a centre of solioitous interest for I'rotestants and Catholios alike. Will the proud Papal prelate fall into the place allotted him, along with the other Nonconformist ministers of all denominations, or will he sulk because he oannot be supreme? The Cardiff decision exactly maintains the position I had to take when writing on the subject recently (in another place), namely, that Romanists, as such, have no status in this country other than that of a Nonconformist minister, either by the law of the land or the law of the Churoh, Cardinal Manning may be a prince in home, he is merely a parson in England. It is not many years sinoe Homanists were forbidden to adopt territorial titles in England. Since the repeal of that wise law the Papal bishops have waxed arrogant. Just as was foretold at the time, they have put forth the most ludicrously inapt pretensions to supremacy, and have justified the alarm with which ex- treme Protestants view any advance of Homanism. It is painfully true that Romanism is a one-eyed religion. It only understands toleration as applied to itself. Its idea of liberty is "Permission for me to persecute you." From the Catholic point of view Komanism has no locus standi in England. The cant phrase is that the Church must have a mission," but that it cannot have a mission in a country where a branoh of the Catholio Church is already established. Hence the Romanists in England are intruders, usurpers, and sohismatios. A friend of mine, who was at once a Scotchman, an able editor, and a remarkably red-hot Ritualist, used to denounce an opposition Roman ohapel as the Italian schism shop." He was quite right, though he might have been more polite. THB DOTIBS or A WHIP. Those who are in the know of politics sym- pathetically appreciate Mr. Akers-Douglas's recent remark that the work he had come from had been of an unusually arduous oharaoter. Only a man of the toughest frame and of the sweetest temper could stand it. From the sitting down of the House until the rising up of the same Mr. Akers-Douglas is always in attendance. The miles he walks between his seat on the Treasury Benoh and his room in the lobby would to an ordinary man be physioally exhausting. But before coming down to the House he has usually had several hours' olose and trying work in Downing-street. The worry and anxiety of the work alone would break down many men. For the Whip is to the Leader of the House what the ohief of the staff ia to the general of a great army, and more. The Whip stands between the Government and defeat. He has to provide against all contingencies, pos- .ible or impoaaiMe? and h.. to hold in h&DA a reserve aumotent to carry anything at any time. Last session was a peculiarly trying time for the Government Whips. Unioniata grew weary of the intohrabte flow of twaddle from the obstructives. There waa at timea great diffinulty in getting members down to the House to be preached to death by wild Haroourts and Storeyites and Par- nellites. Aooident favoured the Opposition. Unsorupulousness improved on accident, and once or twice the Government were withm a measurable distanooot defeat. The vigilance of the Whips saved the Government from actual disaster, but it was touch acd go. The nights were long, aad the times were trying. I can well understand the joy with which Mr. Akers-Dooglas has town back to the oountry life he loves so welt FIBEWOBKS AT TO CRYSTAL PALACE. ViMtoM to the Or,.W P?Me fire- wofh last (Thursday) ni?ht h? M unexpected ^adition to the meotoooltr eSeota. Tt? &reworks oommenoed tbo?t eight o'clook. At the first flight of rookets (as if by signal) the full moon began to rise, a stately dull red disoof fire, which, after devouring a bar of blaok that lay aoross it, retired for a few minutes behind a con- venient bank of oloud, and then emerged olear and bright, to smile serenely, but intermittingly, for the reet of the night. Then ligbtuing flashed across thesky in all directions. To crown the sublime with the ridioulous, somewhere in the direction of Forest Hill there was a display of minor fire- works of an amateurish character. If the fire- works faotory near Honour ()ak Park tstatiou bad gone off in a brilliant burst of upon- taneous combustion the flare-up would have been complete. I IMUOKTALISIKO CARLIKAL NEWMAN. In Newman's case the modern process of immortalisation is proceeding apace. It is both retrospective and active, One musically- wise person has discovered that Lead, kindly Light," has been set to twenty-six tunes. But no one has yet told us of a tune which fully satisfied the vast requirements of the hymn. Another form assumed by New- man's popularity is the appearance of hia portrait on the pavements. I do not meam cheap photographs re- tailed by the gutter merohants. Of these I suppose millions will be sold when they come in the market. I mean that New. man has been added to the gallery of subjects which employ the skill of the artist who dabbles in chalk on the pavement, relying for his reward on the coppers of captivated passers-by. Sometimes it is a ship in fall sail, sometimes a prancing horse, sometimes a very fine mackerel, and vow it is Cardinal Newman I should thuik Newman would fetch I

SWANSEA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, I THE PRESIDENT AND THE JOIN! RAILWAY STATION SCHEME. The monthly meeting of the Swansea Chambei of Commerce Willi held at the Town-hall, Swansea, on Friday skfternoon, Mr. L. Li. Dillwyn, M.P., pres (Jinj. Z-iero were also present Messrs. J. R. Leaver, R. D. Buruie, James Livingstone, Griffith Thomas, C. V. Cratibe, T. R. W. Mason, Fredj Lewis, and L. G. Jeffreys. I THE REFCGB SABJBOUU OultsTi N. Mr. BURNIB called attention to the minute of the Treasury on the harbour of refuge question. stating that it dealt merely with the question of making the nntional harbours p ty. That was not the spirit in which the Axaociaied Chambers had deAlt. with the matter, their theory being that the saving of life and property was the principal letum to be considered. It would be well to further prosecute the matter. The ^GCBETARY reported that the council of the chamber had just appointed a committee to COil- sider the form in which the matter should be introduced before tho Associated Chambers next rear. I A TOINT RAILWAY STATION. The CLERK said that Mr. Ben Evans had given notice of a resolution on the question of a joint central railway station, but Mr. Evans was unavoidably absent. The resolution, however, waf an open and general one, and might well be put tc the meeting. The PREStDbNT asked whether any suitable ocheme had been fixed upon to accompaoy the resolution. The SBCBETARY replied in the negative. Mr. John Dickson, engineer, had a design to place the station at the bottom of Wind-street, whilst the council were considering Mr. Rocke's schema for a station in Worcester-place combined with the widening of Castle-street. The PitHOIDENT: Both those plans were dil- cussed some years ago. I have always been anxious to have Swansea on the main line and to have a central at atiott, but the Swansea people did not support me. The Great Western Company favoured tAc. Baxter's scheme for crossing over from Briton Ferry, but Swansea people opposed it, and we were beaten ia Parliament. Then, afterwards we had the Wind* 8' reet Station, but the Swansea people turned the Great Western out of it. I got Sir Daniel Goocb, Mr. Grierson, and, I think, the presaiitcliairman (Mr. Saunders) down here, and they ttaw the sites. Sir Daniel Gooch certainly expressed his opinion that neither scheme was feasible. The town, if it now takes the matter in band, should propose a dedults scheme. Mr. BURNl. then moved the resolution whici stood in Mr. Evans's name:- That this chamber observes with pleasure that the question of a central combined railway station is agaif occupying the attention of the authorities, and trusts the matter will be proceeded with to a satisfactory issue. In reply to the president, Mr. BUHNl. said that the council were endeavouring to arrange a coo. ference of the railway companies. Mr. CRAsus seconded, and the resolution wal c t rried.

PEMBROKE AND TENBY RAILWAY- HALF-YEARLY MEETING. [noli OCR SPECIAL RZPOKTRR.) LONDON, YBIDAl The ordinary half-yearly meeting of the ahaA )K)Mem of the above company was held at "nicea. Plhldintoo, to-day, Mr. C. Stanley WUIi<m? presiding. The report of tho directors, which wM taken as read, showed that the receipts umountetf to ?12,189 16< as ?it?t £ 11.909 19. Hd. for ttj <;c'r?6p"nd)ng period of 1889, bfi"? an increRse: ?279 18<. ld. The expenditure w ? £ 6,766 31,. ii as compared with ?66,75? 7s. 6J, an incte?e <? 911 15s. 7d. After providing for the int?re?t on ak fixed charges there was a balance of £2,679 lis. 6d, out of which the directors recommended dividend on the preference shares at the rate < 21 per cent. pAr annum, as a?inst 2 per cent. pai annum in 1889 for the half-year, and carried rar* ward a balance of f243 la. The t HAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of t. report, observed that, notwithstanding that tu expenditure was only ill in excess of the cor; responding period of 1-ipii year, the line had bee; kept in a thoroughly efficient state, whilst the rai ceipts were larger than U'IU'IJ, being L270 18. Id. more than last year. The amount of the working expenses compared very favourably with bigger lines- The whole of the line was now laid with teoi rail-, which, of course, would cause 4 saving. Be added that one of the director Mr. C. W. Barrow, was going to reaic ?t Tenby, to see what he could do in the interes "f the line. In conclusion the chairman paid a tribute to the efficiency of the services of Mr. Smedley, the general manager, who was prevented by indisposition from being present. Mr. G. THOMAS seconded, and the report and statement of accounts were adopted, as also was anorber resolution,declaring a dividend at the r&^ of 2t per cent. per annum on the preference shares. bir. J. B. Barrow and Mr. C. Stanley Williams, who retired by rotation, were re-elected directors, and the business concluded.

PENARTH DOCK AND RAILWAY. I HALF-YEARLY MEETING The 69th ordinary general half-year of the proprietors of the Peuartti Hari ur, C i. and Railway was held at the Brli 61 flc .i. •. u., on Friday. Lieutenant-Colonel Wit »>t ( .v* presided. There was but a small at •• proprietors. The directors in their report stat company's bankers. Messrs. Wilkin* having amalgamated their busi that of Lloyds' Bank (Limited), decided to continue the coml"¡'' count with that firm accordinly. Ttwr statements of account showed that and n57,000 loatio, ke, (tho Capital had been fully received, the riebentu. it oo June 30, 1890 1 heing:-At 3. per ceut, L'1.S 4 per oont., £ 179,490. Tlie capital IICCO\- > ,,ztenaion aliowed &a item of f,7,641 1: ti., expired balance paid toTaff Vale ailwa. Cg Pit r Y, under the advice of Sir John Hawksha "()1.a- plete works essential to dock extcn 'ttt. revenue account showed a balnnes !744 la. 4d., of which A19,758 7a. fti. would I II hy a dividend of 5i per cent. on £ 77.^0C0 'ut..k. leaving £886 38. 10d: carried forward. It Was unanimously agreed ilint the fepcr?. v- 1 statement of accounts be received, ac jp^ sanctioned, and that a dividend at tlte ts 6s. per cent per annum be d eear ed, syit i)ia i, I the 6th of September next. Mr. Evan Lewia and Mr. John Nixon, t\, retiring directors, were unanimously re-c! Mr. John Lane Herhert was re-elects <u. • Votes of thanks terminated the procee Un-.

A DISTINGUISH ED WlfiLSB VISIVOR. The Governor of Pennsylvania b now 04 a visit to this country, and ba8 spent a short time ID London. Tho Governor, whose name is Davies, is a Welshman. Hew" born nearponto ardswe, in the Nwansoa Vallay, some sixty years ago. When be was quite a child bit parents emigrated to the States, taking him witt them. Like so many others who han achieved diatino> tion in A.-Podcan polities, he is a lawyer by proo friplon. This is, we believe, bis Irat vieit to Eac- land. RA left town a few daya ago for the WeI", and intends wnile in Wales to re-visit the place of him nativity. Pontardawe will, no doubt* b# proud to wsicom4 biw. 4 ———————.—————.—— 

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